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Auteur: Yann Golanski
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Aan: Trevor Sky Garside
CC: Trevor Sky Garside, exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] HELP! Exim processes are running away with 100+MB of RAM, crashing my mail servers!
Quoth Trevor Sky Garside on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:32:49 -0800
> > But not running exim in debug mode and finding out what causes the
> > prblem?...
>
> I can't seem to duplicate it -- any processes I spawn don't seem to be
> affected. (See below).


Hum... try spawning a queu runner and monitoring this one. Generally
those problems occure on queue runners.

Oh, see if there are any unusually large files in your spool... like
orphant -H or -D files...

> I have been trying to find any similarities by using exiwhat to see what
> processes are hogging the RAM. They vary. Some are accepting inbound
> connections, some are delivering email. None of the email deliveries or
> inbounds that I was able to trace down were bigger than 15Kb, and nothing
> abnormal looking in the headers.


What about split_spool_dir option?

> To update my situation: I have managed to stabalize the mail system
> enough that it doesn't crash. I've got just the right combination of
> load-limiting options that seem to keep it going.


Not ideal really... Let us know what happended.

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